The recent flurry of marches, demonstrations and even riots, along with the Democratic Party’s spiteful reaction to the Trump presidency, exposes what modern liberalism has become: a politics shrouded in pathos. Unlike the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, when protesters wore their Sunday best and carried themselves with heroic dignity, today’s liberal marches are marked by incoherence and downright lunacy—hats designed to evoke sexual organs, poems that scream in anger yet have no point to make, and an hysterical anti-Americanism.

All this suggests lostness, the end of something rather than the beginning. What is ending?

America, since the ’60s, has lived through what might be called an age of white guilt. We may still be in this age, but the Trump election suggests an exhaustion with the idea of white guilt, and with the drama of culpability, innocence and correctness in which it mires us.

White guilt is not actual guilt. Surely most whites are not assailed in the night by feelings of responsibility for America’s historical mistreatment of minorities. Moreover, all the actual guilt in the world would never be enough to support the hegemonic power that the mere pretense of guilt has exercised in American life for the last half-century.

ROTFLMAO, White guilt!!!!!! haven't heard that term since I left high and college. Now for a dose of reality, a nation of diversity, educated, women moving out of the kitchen and into the corporate arena are maybe a little exasperated of "White ignorance" a little attribute associated with narrow minded individuals taught the finer things in life based on privilege irrespective of if you earned or deserved it, worked well up till the 60s when those marches embolden people to fight against such ignorance. Good one!!!!!

let me guess, raise in a rural small town, very little education or skills, worked at the local factory until your job went to Mexico, now you're angry at every person and situation that exposes your lack of education and skill, so your impoverish life can be blamed on someone else other than yourself.

Funny how you thought to submit a rubbish opinionated article that aligned itself with your narrow minded thought. It's been approximately 5 minutes since you've offered that opinion but factually, did you find that academia or ability to read blueprints? Didn't think so but the world has become very progressive to the extent that millions will get lost in the antiquated views of bigotry, racism, misogamy and diversity. Chuck Todd is better qualified to speak of what he knows and learned in life, unlike Trump and others who were told that a educated women is good for two things.....both are relegated to domestic duties.

Donald Trump's Mom basically lived the lifestyle of most women of the era, you married, served your man and birth his children, life was great wasn't it? Tell us son, why did the offspring aspire to get educated and make the decisions to seek careers first?Two former First lady whom I admire immensely, Laura Bush and Michelle Obama, neither are like the current, a trophy wife of little means and faithfully follows obediently in the footsteps of her domineering husband. She can teach our young girls how to dress and put on the proper amount of lipstick.

For more than 80 years now, we—the residents of what some people like to call Blue America, but which I prefer to think of as the United States of We Pay Our Own Damn Way—have shelled out far more in federal tax monies than we took in. We have funded massive infrastructure projects in your rural counties, subsidized your schools and your power plants and your nursing homes, sent you entire industries, and simultaneously absorbed the most destitute, unskilled, and oppressed portions of your populations, white and black alike.

All of which, it turns out, only left you more bitter, white, and alt-right than ever.

Some folks here in self-supporting America like to believe that there must be a way to bring you back to your senses and to restore rational government, if not liberal ideals, sometime in the foreseeable future. Everyone seems to have an answer for

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Originally Posted By: Formermac

Funny how you thought to submit a rubbish opinionated article that aligned itself with your narrow minded thought. It's been approximately 5 minutes since you've offered that opinion but factually, did you find that academia or ability to read blueprints? Didn't think so but the world has become very progressive to the extent that millions will get lost in the antiquated views of bigotry, racism, misogamy and diversity. Chuck Todd is better qualified to speak of what he knows and learned in life, unlike Trump and others who were told that a educated women is good for two things.....both are relegated to domestic duties.

"It's been approximately 5 minutes since you've offered that opinion but factually, did you find that academia or ability to read blueprints?"

Donald Trump's Mom basically lived the lifestyle of most women of the era, you married, served your man and birth his children, life was great wasn't it? Tell us son, why did the offspring aspire to get educated and make the decisions to seek careers first?Two former First lady whom I admire immensely, Laura Bush and Michelle Obama, neither are like the current, a trophy wife of little means and faithfully follows obediently in the footsteps of her domineering husband. She can teach our young girls how to dress and put on the proper amount of lipstick.

"Donald Trump's Mom basically lived the lifestyle of most women of the era, you married, served your man and birth his children, life was great wasn't it?"

To be honest, I can't answer that question.Reasons.1.I'm not Presidents Trumps Mom.2.I'm not a woman from that era.3.I swear, I've never given birth to anyone.4.I wasn't married to President Trumps Dad, or Mom.5.I can't answer if life was great for them, or not, I was not there.

Tell us son, why did the offspring aspire to get educated and make the decisions to seek careers first?

I believe the young Donald Trump was driven, but I'm only guessing.

"Two former First lady whom I admire immensely, Laura Bush and Michelle Obama,

Why did you admire them?

"neither are like the current"

Really, you noticed too!

"a trophy wife of little means"She is a trophy wife, and a nice one too, but of little means is incorrect, unlike you, she got the brass ring, and you got the slug.

"and faithfully follows obediently in the footsteps of her domineering husband."

A comment like this coming from a single man seems odd.

"She can teach our young girls how to dress and put on the proper amount of lipstick."

Lets go petty here son, Newly built home in 2013, new car, big pension, investments, 2 well educate kids, wife is a school principal, well you're right, I hope that it stays really bad. Now your turn, yes I'm laughing my a** off. Lastly, even I know when nonsensical offerings are the only tool left when a debate has been lost, thus the reason you go there often. Maybe facts can change your losing proposition.

I initially thought that dignity would count in your favor but now see, that left several years ago when you were booted from the forum. You forget son, I patronize you because PMs are exposing your reality but keep hope alive by selling yourself big and lowering my standards, works for me if it works for me. Mean while, lets get back to the topic YOU'VE created but quickly derailed.

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Originally Posted By: Formermac

Lets go petty here son, Newly built home in 2013, new car, big pension, investments, 2 well educate kids, wife is a school principal, well you're right, I hope that it stays really bad. Now your turn, yes I'm laughing my a** off. Lastly, even I know when nonsensical offerings are the only tool left when a debate has been lost, thus the reason you go there often. Maybe facts can change your losing proposition.

"I know when nonsensical offerings are the only tool left when a debate has been lost, thus the reason you go there often."

I initially thought that dignity would count in your favor but now see, that left several years ago when you were booted from the forum. You forget son, I patronize you because PMs are exposing your reality but keep hope alive by selling yourself big and lowering my standards, works for me if it works for me. Mean while, lets get back to the topic YOU'VE created but quickly derailed.

Still off topic while offering no status other than that of PMs, who can blame you for avoiding fact.

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Originally Posted By: Formermac

I initially thought that dignity would count in your favor but now see, that left several years ago when you were booted from the forum. You forget son, I patronize you because PMs are exposing your reality but keep hope alive by selling yourself big and lowering my standards, works for me if it works for me. Mean while, lets get back to the topic YOU'VE created but quickly derailed.

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Originally Posted By: Formermac

Originally Posted By: Formermac

I initially thought that dignity would count in your favor but now see, that left several years ago when you were booted from the forum. You forget son, I patronize you because PMs are exposing your reality but keep hope alive by selling yourself big and lowering my standards, works for me if it works for me. Mean while, lets get back to the topic YOU'VE created but quickly derailed.

Still off topic while offering no status other than that of PMs, who can blame you for avoiding fact.